EDF (energy company) fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign

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EDF (energy company) fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign

Source: BBC

10 November 2011 Last updated at 16:50 GMT

EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News

A French court has fined energy giant EDF 1.5 million euros (�1.3 million) and sent two of its staff to jail for spying on Greenpeace campaigners.

The company is hoping to build four nuclear reactors in the UK.

A court in Nanterre, near Paris, found that EDF employed security firm Kargus to spy on Greenpeace as it campaigned against new reactors in France.

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Greenpeace's campaign targeted in particular the new reactor being built at Flammanville on the Normandy coast, one of the European Pressurised Water Reactors (EPRs) that EDF hopes to bring to the UK.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15683090

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Thu Nov-10-11 08:41 PM
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1. EDF nuclear division is a pox on humanity and the French are getting tired of it.

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